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The Tenacious Quest to Find the World’s Best Rice, Taste

Fashion Designer Jun Takahashi, Fantastic Man

Generation Game: Bamboo Artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, Crafts

Fumio Kishida: Why Japan’s New Prime Minister Has His Work Cut Out, New Statesman

Japan Out of Sync with Cop26 Coal Phase-Out Push, New Statesman

What Matsuyama’s Masters Victory Means for Golf in Japan, Sports Illustrated

Most People in Japan Oppose the Olympics. So Where is the Opposition? Sports Illustrated

The World Cup of Planted Aquariums, WEPRESENT

What Does Your Cat Mean By ‘Miaow’? Let Japan’s Pet Guru Yuki Hattori Explain, The Observer

What’s in Store? Tokyo’s Isetan Department Store, Monocle (Issue 92)

Steppe Change: Mongolia, Monocle (Issue 103)

Japan’s Mascot Army of Cuteness, Monocle (Issue 81)

Joko Widodo Sets Out to Fix Jakarta, Monocle (Issue 72)

Inside South Korea’s Ministry of Unification, Monocle (Issue 66)

Japan’s Diplomats in the Spotlight, Monocle (Issue 81)

Limber Up: Japan’s Rajio Taiso (Radio Exercises), Monocle (Issue 58)

Tokyo’s White-Gloved Taxicab Drivers, Monocle (Issue 64)

Touring the Capital of Udon Noodles, Monocle (Issue 129)

Training with Japan’s Cold Weather Combat Troops, Monocle’s Alpino

Japanese Fashion’s Select Shop Pioneer, Monocle (Issue 108)

Aikyu no Tomo: Japan’s Only Racing Pigeon Magazine, Monocle (Issue 110)

How I Manage: Muneaki Masuda, Tsutaya Founder, Monocle (Issue 48)